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Значения термина pis aller на английском

An expedient adopted only in desperation.

Использование термина pis aller на английском
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Yet it is characteristic of him that he always tended to regard the writing of verse as a ' pis aller'.
Shelley
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The purpose of this chapter is sufficiently served in indicating that this proposal also is a pis aller, a desperate second best-liketeetotalism.
What's Wrong with the World
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But don't you see, if it is said that she was obliged to leave Milan, it puts us in the position of a pis aller!
A Siren
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'In a bad school: as a pis aller one might put up with him.
Tancred; Or, The New Crusade
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"Ce serait toujours un pis aller," said Jacobi, seating himself with calmness in Ratcliffe's favourite chair by Mrs. Lee's side.
Democracy, an American novel